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I came across this proposition in an article about genus class fields. enter image description here

I have a few questions about the parts that I have underlined in red. I don't understand why the norm map $N_{H/K}: I_H \to P_K$ is surjective. In this particular case, the image of $N_{H/K}$ is the free abelian group generated by $\{ \mathfrak{p}^{\mathfrak{f}(\mathfrak{p})} \}$ for $\mathfrak{p}$ unramified and $\mathfrak{f}(\mathfrak{p})$ is the order of the class of $\mathfrak{p}$ in the class group of $K$. So the image lands in $P_K$, but suppose we fix a prime $\mathfrak{p}$ non-principal and choose $\mathfrak{I}$ an ideal coprime to $\mathfrak{p}$ in the inverse class of $\mathfrak{p}$ (in the class group). $\mathfrak{p}\mathfrak{I} \in P_K$ but I don't see why it should be in the image of the norm map because $\mathfrak{p}^{\mathfrak{f}(\mathfrak{p})} \nmid \mathfrak{p}\mathfrak{I}$.

Also, I am not sure how the equality in the third underlined statement was obtained. Is it that $N_{H/G}$ is sujective? How can it be explained?

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This article by Herz contains several errors, and the items you are pointing out are gaps; see Chapter 2 of my thesis, in particular pp. 42-43. There are better presentations of genus clsas fields - see Section III of the bibliography.

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